Hi, again!

Jees, it's been a while altho there was enough to write about. Dont really know why I didnt update but what the the heck :).

There are only 2 days left till I am leaving to Thailand. Booked a ticket yest. pretty solid ripoff but wanna go anyway, have to make a lot of preparations before I am ready to go. No clue whats gonna happen when I land saturdaymorning. I think I ll book a hotel for the first couple of days work from there, really looking forward!!!

Started to say goodbye to everybody, one of those things was a unusual dinner what turned out to be a very cool experience. I had no idea what we were about to do when Dennis passed me a fake identity and badge, he told me about a United Nations congress for cities against poverty. Wubbe Okkels, a dutch princess and some former first ministers were on the list of speakers. The congress included dinners aswell, and I was about to bluf my way in. We went to Schouwburgplein and walked among some african ladies towards the bus. I was pretty happy when I managed to get in without any problems. After a short drive with police escort we arrived in the old factory. Was a good night spoke to a lot of people including a 2nd minster of Congo.






After people finshed there (very yummy) dinner the dancefloor was hit pretty hard. Was nice to see such a mixed group of people dance and have fun together. I secretly laughed at some of the ridic moves I saw.

Before I started this blogpost I wanted to include a trip report from last weekend, when I was in Namur (Belgium) with a some other pokerplayers. Was sick fun, but I cant be bothered to write that trip report lol. I ll copy/paste some of the clifnotes that had been written down. I am not sure how funny it is for non pokerplayers I ll just dumpt it inhere + I apoligise for the language. Second one are my own cliffnotes :).


- Walen kunnen totaal niet pokeren.
- Ze kunnen wel heel goed koken en bier brouwen.
- De 2/2 tafels hebben de meest bizarre rake structuur ever.
- Poker is voor life nits, echte gamblers spelen roulette.
- Er gebeurde iets raars met een vaas.
- Iemand shipte iets.
- PU'ers veranderen spontaan in vissen als er meer dan drie bij elkaar aan tafel zitten.
- Twee mensen leek het een goed idee om om half vijf 's ochtends nog naar Nederland terug te rijden.

Kortom, het was één groot feest!

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Aight, ik heb ook nog wel een paar cliffs.

Bijvoorbeeld:

-je over Rotterdam/Namur makkelijk 9uur+ kan doen
-een ID vrij crusiaal is als je naar het casino gaat
-er in Namen een fop-Italiaan met restaurant woont
-Orni solide gamblecolleges geeft als je hem bier geeft
-Vleugel (uit)slapen gay vindt
-dat survivalen en filosoferen best samen gaan
-Qhigh samen met een lazy sunday de stonecold oppernut is
-dat Oord serieus verontwaardigd is als ie met black jack wordt gepwnd
-er iemand was die zowel in toerooien als in cashgames als in casinogames belachelijk goed runde.
-Avantanio eigenlijk Soharmatanio of Avaastanio moet zijn
-bingo underrated, en +EV is als er een hele school vis aanschuift
-dat Pat is like my iPod stuck on replay, replay-ay-ay-ay
-dat Jeflins iPod skills me geld hebben gekost
-dat een taksi van Breda naar Rotterdam std altijd 100% een beat is voor je liveroll
-ik een hele relaxte roommate had

clif clif: mooi weekend! :D


This is the song I refer too when talking about iPod skills

Holland

Its very tempting to name this blogentry: "Fuck, my life is so cold ;)" Esepcially after a SMS from malysia this morning saying:

"Fuck my life......


...is soooo goooood"

But I resist. My life is very cold tho, I keep whining about it and people keep telling me that it aint that cold compared to some time earlier. Good to see some of my friends again, but I hate the circumstances, freezing my ass of, and I feel like a prisoner kept inside the relative warmth of the house. It's funny I laughed pretty hard when Andrick blogged about the wheather in the UK, now I realise how fkn right he is. Living outside rocks!!


Still wearing a hat inside lol

I arrived in the Netherlands later then planned last Thursday after missing my connecting flight to Amsterdam. I was surprised by my own calmness when that happened. I didnt really care and went over my options to solve my problem. Pokermindset I guess. There were 2 flights supposed to leave around midnight to Amsterdam. the non-KLM was delayed and they were able to get me in that one if I was prepared to make a run for it. I said to myself "much better then a sleepover in KL, let's roll!" Slept like a baby and arrived at Schiphol around 8am instead of 5.45am I was supposed to land. Oh well I think it's acceptable for a 17hour+ journey :)

Had a solid weekend, most remarkable was Friday when I was about to play a tournament in the domstad classics. Adventure was literally over before it started becus I showed up late, even too late for the late registration. Instead of playing the tournament I railed some pokerbuddies and played a lot of cash, hopping over to the tourney tables everey now and then. Best result for PU was a 13th place in a field of 320 people for 750Euro. I wasnt very lucky with my cards, overall I played decent and my net. result was -40big blinds or -200E. Biggest decision of the night was me considdering to play pocket Jacks for stacks. My image was terribad, and I was ready to get it all in if my opponent decided to 4bet. Sure enough he did 4bet, but he gave me me everey single "livetell" I know saying: "me got the best hand out there" with it. I tanked for a couple of minutes and folded. Found out later it wud be a 50%-50% situation :( . Home around 8 in the morning, Good timezzz, enjoyed it! We are going to Namen (Belgium)for a weekend this month with roughly the same group of people, should be fun!!

Ya, considdering to go to Holland casino Rotterdam 2night, if i can motivate myself to leave the house..


Walk hard, very funny movie I saw 2 weeks ago.


Anyways, take care

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Fuck, my life is good!!

Said and heard that an awfull lot of times last couple of weeks. I can only speak for myself when I say: I honestly feel that way at the moment. It's so good to realise it at the very moment you are having a good time. I dont know about you, but I usually find out afterwards that some things were pretty darn good. "Enjoy the moment" and "enjoy life" are hollow sentences to a lot of people. I have to admit it's probably easier to reconise a good life in a country where you see a lot of people struggle to survive evrey single day. Oh well, let's try to really live by it anyway!

I really love it when I realise I can go to every place in the world any time I want. I got the time, money, health and the anti-commitment to whatever. I wrote couple of blogs entries ago my plans down for comming months and I am probably not gonna stick to them. Some things are set but I am really considdering some other good stuff at the moment. I am not gonna write it down today becus I am not sure yet, dont want to bother you with all those stupid things crossing my mind. Keep you posted on that one!

Today was crazy. Why the heck does mankind want to fly 6 o'clock in the morning :O . We dropped James of today. James is one of the 2 guys I bumped into twice within a few hours a couple of weeks ago. Alex and James were really really drunk the second time I met them, and not just drunk, ready to party aswell. They asked me if I wanted to come along and I obv cudnt resist. That night was fun, Alex and James were cool, Alex almost ended up paying 200RM for a hamburger :O . Anyways ended up spending quite some time with them since.


l: Alex, r:James


Alex's friend, ran ino eachother in 3 different countries


Insta in love with the girl in white lol!












Weirdest coincidence Ive ever seen, involving 1 of the waitresses.




f.ck public tansportation and taksi's. Free rides ftw especially in cars like this one


21!!!


James got himself stung by a jellyfish the day before, and got ill afterwards. 5 days ill out of 3 weeks holliday, really felt for the guy. life sucks sometime.


Awesome!


My fouvourite word in English is LUNATIC. [x]I hazz found one :D


Birthdayhats are awesome when you go out!!




Still feeling "AIKS" couldnt go out with Alex and me =(






Never ever drunk as much before, felt slightly like the last scene of "the Hangover" when I looked back at the pictures next day. Was such a fkn awesome night!!

That's it.

HWW out/

Cliffs.

Yo!

Writing down some cliffnotes:

Januari started of really relaxt but starting to pick up some speed again. I am very tired due of some sick fun yesterday and the day before (will post pics later). Wanted to write down that I think KLM is fkn unreal, charging me 120 euro's to change my returnflight. Did it anyway since you dont really got a choice eh?
So I ll leave 27th 23.40. and will arrive 28th of Jan. 5.45. local time in Amsterdam. So if there are people out there who wanna hug and cry most welcome ;). It's good to come a couple of days earlier. keeps my options open me to play some live tourneypoker in the "Domstad classics"

Wasmachine went down. fml everey single piece of electronics had brokes down the last few months.

Running very poorly in getting a new appartment:

-not a great budget
-lady from the Midlands didnt call me (saw it kinda coming to be honest)
-estate agent cant help out on that one.

I strongly considder to stick with seaview and just getting another appartment :)

Thats it. Got a date with my bed around 10 so igg.

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Planning.

I went to see some appartments with an estate agent. Since my "contract" for the place I got right now expires at the end of this month Ive got to think in advance. iow PLANNING. I started the day of good by oversleeping, I woke up by the agent calling me that he was at my appartment already, (not funny!) then I had no water, and I was like OMG they cut me off for not paying my November bill yet(NOT FUNNY!^2). I found out later that the whole building had trouble with their water, so no probloms for me, phew!xd. Getting dressed didnt take me long and I was ready to go and get things done. Unfortunately the budget I came up with wasnt as reasonable as I honestly thought it was. At least for the conditions I've got. I did see a place wich at first sight fit my preferences but turned out to be a shithole!(I tooke some pics of it with my phone, not sure if i can get them onto my laptop tho.) I am starting to think it's a pretty big mistake to leave Seaview garden lol. Seriously I honestly don't understand how that guy is ever gonna rent that place out to someone in the condition as bad as it is right now. Went to another appartment by myself and got stuck in a security controlroom of a hotel/condo with a muslim girl. And don't tell me they don't flirt! :O. Actually nobody told me that, just my own prejustices. Makes me realise once again that I am still full of them. Anyway hopefully I can have a look at the Midlands next week. The good thing is they rent out pretty small units and the location is pretty much perfect, they promised me to gimme a call. *please do*


Midlands, this one doesnt look as good as Seaview either :( What am I doing? lol

Let me write my ideas down for coming months, and finish this blogentry. I pretty much made up my mind:

Get back to Holland 28th of January with my yearticket.
Book another retour to Malaysia leaving early March and returning medio June. Then fly from Amsterdam to Getwick and from Getwick to Las Vegas the first of july to return the 1st of August back to the Netherlands. Gives me the opportunity to spent a big part of the vacation with friends and family+some time to figure out if I wanna go study again or continue to live life like I do right now.


Think about it.

Sounds like a solid plan to me. I found a pretty resonable retour ticket Amsterdan>Kl>Amsterdam BUT makes a stop in Cairo. At first I thought that isn't great, but it does give me the opportunity to stick around in Egypt for a while wich is pretty cool imo. I have to check out the option of an "around the world ticket" first before I start booking tho. Furthermore I ll have to leave Malaysia 1 more time between March and June, not sure yet where I want to go, I mean there are a looot of options. Oh well we will see!



Take care!/

Relaxt, being a spectator.

2nd of Januari already. At this moment I enjoy being just by myself. December has been a pretty hectic month for me. 4 weeks non stop people staying in your house, running around to do and see stuff + a lot of travelling especially the first 2 weeks is tiring. Def. not complaining was probably the best month of the year! But for someone who likes to be alone to a certain degree it's good to have my home for myself again. Internet is in a very good shape lately, so I ve been watching some 2009 conferences from dutch comedians. Furthermore grinding out my pokerbonus, really have to put in some volume this months to redeem. Not leaving the house till I am out of food haha :P .



31dec was a weird day, family prepared themself to leave, cleaned the place up, and spent quite some time at the pool upstairs. Plan was to drop them off around 9pm after we had dinner at the airport. It's funny how I like this place so much. 3rd time I ate at roasters within 1 month. Me likes there muffins a lot!




Anyways wasnt fun to see them go, I am not sure yet but for now I think it sucks much harder to be left behind then to leave behind. I need a bigger sample tho to make up my mind about that.. :)
I sticked around in Georgetown without plans, I was like: I ll hook up with some people and if I dont perfectly fine too, was uncool tho to see my table been given away while I was taking a toiletbreak :@ . Still not sure wheter they f.cked up by accident or they did it on purpose. I had been thinking earlier that it was pretty -EV for there business to have me sitting there instead of a somewhat bigger group. I decided not to make an argument, just wished her happy new year. Good me IMO. On my way to the boulevard to see some fireworks I ran into a hooker with slightly too much make-up, instead of taking her offer for a massage I asked her if I was heading into the right direction, ended up with a chat, and feeling sorry for her soul.


Didnt see any of this :(

I arrived at the boulevard few minutes past 12, I didnt see one single piece of fireworks :O . Heard a few bangs at 12 but compared to what I am used to this was pathetic. Gurneydrive was busy, very busy and even without fireworks there was a positive, relaxt, friendly, not so much party atmosphere or maybe it was just me not sensing it. Walked, wished evereybody out there "happy new year", watched a helicopter saying "hi" to the crowd, a fountain of foam wich resulted in a lot of kids with fabulous hats and long white beards. Then heard Elvis screamin "It feels good" I cudnt resist to take a look and my eyes saw a somewhat small stage with a band playing some good oldies. Watched people going nuts, I stayed with the band till they stopped playing wich made me decide to call it a day and headed back home to get some sleep in a decent bed for the first time in...what felt like ages...

Weird way to celebrate the new year eh? I didnt really celebrate actually, others did the celebrating for me, I just watched them. Wondering what people were thinking when I sat there by myself, must have looked silly. As long as I remember I enjoy to step aside everey now and then and watch other people being busy with random stuff.Stepping aside. A little like the helicopter, as an overview, being a spectator of life instead of a participant just for a moment or 2. People are funny creatures, I mean really. Sometimes we need people around us sometimes we don't. Sometimes having people around you, you dont know is a as good as no people at all. It's up to you wheter you want to interact or not. in the meanwhile you got something incredible fun too watch.

Happy new year y'all!


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photo's

Heya, quick picture dropping.


Macau


Batu caves 200+steps Last one upstairs had to walk the whole thing over, but Villain chickened out!


Batu caves


Batu caves


Honkong.


Cool girl from the USA teamed up with the 3 of us to laugh at all the oldies in ouer buss. Was a pretty fun day imo! :D


Petronas towers. Like it a lot, think I found myself an avatar :)We were pretty lame tourists in Kuala Lumpur but whatever we had fun!:D We actually checked out "zombieland" in one of these


Gamehall Macau, we probably never grow up lolz.


Floating restaurant, had lunch there during sightseeingtour Hong kong.



Contrast, some people have to work, others don't


Symphony of light, pretty awesome,u shud go and check it out!


Won some money->ship it!


Macau


Cabdriver 4am lol, always give him a ring if I need a cab.


Lankawi,Coral island daytrip


Coral island

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